DIXON^S THRUSH. 
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the Tonghoo hills at 5000 feet elevation. Mr. Davison met with it in 
Tenasserim, at Paraduba and on Mooleyit mountain. 
This Thrush is found in summer in the Himalayas from Kumaon to 
Assam^ and in winter it descends to the plains^ having been found, 
according to Dr. Jerdon, as far south in India as the Wynaad. It has 
also been met with in the Khasia hills, and is probably a visitor to 
all portions of the Indo-Burmese countries. 
The birds I met with were feeding on the ground ; and I did not observe 
any thing peculiar about their habits. Dr. Jerdon says it is very partial 
to bamboo-jungles, and that its flight is rapid. 
6. GEOCICHLA DIXONI. 
DIXON^S THRUSH. 
Oreocincla moUissima, apud Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 100 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. . 
Feath. vi. p. 2o6 ; Wardlaiu Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, p. 463. Geocichla dixoni, 
Seehohm, Cat. Birds B. Mus. v. p. 100. 
Description. — Male and female. The whole upper plumage olive-brown, 
the edges of the feathers obsoletely darker and the shafts of the frontal 
feathers pale ; lesser wing-coverts the same olive-brown ; median and 
greater coverts dark brown, edged with bulFy brown and tipped with large 
buff spots ; quills dark brown, edged with buffy brown ; the central two pairs 
of tail-feathers plain brown ; the next two pairs brown on the outer webs 
and very dark brown on the inner, and very minutely tipped with white ; 
the next pair very dark brown on both webs, and tipped rather largely with 
white ; the outermost pair light brown, edged with dark brown on the 
inner web and tipped very broadly with white, which runs up the web for 
nearly two inches ; chin and centre of the throat white ; sides of the throat 
and head white, each feather edged at the end with brown ; breast, upper 
abdomen and sides of the body white, each feather with a large crescentic 
black tip, in front of which the feather is fulvous ; lower abdomen, vent 
and under tail- coverts white ; axillaries white, tipped with black. 
Iris brown ; bill brown ; gape yellowish ; legs dull brownish yellow. 
[Wardlaw Ramsay.) 
Length about 10*5 inches, tail 4*7, wing 5*5, tarsus 1*45, bill from 
gape 1*2. 
This species is allied to G. moUissima of the Himalayas, and differs from 
it in having a much longer tail, in having a double series of buff spots on 
the wing-coverts, and in having the colour of the upper plumage olive- 
brown instead of russet-brown. 
